OŚRODEK TU I TERAZ / WARSZTATY / June 2018 / 07.06.18 - 10.06.18
The Flying Sandbox. Awake An Actor Within You, (Nowe Kawkowo)
Zdarzenia
- Tytuł:
- The Flying Sandbox. Awake An Actor Within You, (Nowe Kawkowo)
- Kiedy:
- Cz, 7. czerwiec 2018 - N, 10. czerwiec 2018
- Gdzie:
- Paul Bargetto
- Kategoria:
- June 2018
Opis
During the The Flying Sandbox workshop participants will learn about the practical methods used in the actor's work to deepen the body awareness, stimulate creativity and build a creative contact within the team.
This course may be interesting for people related to the broad field of performing arts as well as for non-professionals as a way to expand their consciousness, better manage their anxiety in interpersonal contacts, and learn new ways of being and seeing, and ... awaken an actor within themselves.
The workshops will give you the opportunity to learn the methods of unlocking emotions, establishing contact with the power of the body and senses, building contact in the group as well as effective, deep learning that can be applied to almost every subject and discipline.
In the course students will learn to activate the body through time-tested ensemble building exercises from the world of theatre and dance. They will learn to improvise using game theory developed from the impro movement and they will learn how to create composition by learning the Viewpoints method of actor training. And lastly students will learn how to use performance as an applied practice to unlock memory.
DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC METHODS USED AT THE FLYING SANDBOX WORKSHOP:
Viewpoints:
A method of actor training developed by the choreographer Mary Overlie and Anne Bogart in New York City during the 1970’s. In this training actors learn the methodology of structured movement improvisation and the foundations of ensemble based composition.
Suzuki Method:
A method of actor training developed by Tadashi Suzuki of Japan. This rigorous training method deepens core physical strength, balance, and discipline.
New Commedia:
This form is a core aesthetic development and working method of East River Commedia and Paul Bargetto. It is an evolution of the classical Commedia grounded in the grotesque, improvisation, stock, character, lazzi, and mask applied to contemporary archetypes.
Ensemble Building Blocks:
A series of exercises and improvisations designed to forge group identity, ensemble thinking and creative ensemble independence. Working according to this method develops: sensitivity to the members of the entire team, collective thinking skills, and also encourages the creation of the show based on the creativity of the team and its independent potential.
Ensemble Based Composition:
Actors are immersed in the technique of ensemble driven composition. Instead of passive actors in a director’s vision, the ensemble becomes an active participant and generator of new material and staging transforming the relationship between ensemble and actor and ensemble and director. The team is treated here as a unique, active participant in the process. Relations and interactions between actors and the director are an important source of inspiration for further work on the whole show.
Testimonials from the last Flying Sandbox in Bucharest, Romania
“The motto for me in this workshop was: hold on tightly, let go lightly! There’s so much truth here and it applies so well in every aspect of our lives…During this workshop I fell in love again, I fell in love with acting, I fell in love with working together with artists, I fell in love with our wild imagination coming to life, i fell in love with viewpoints and the discipline of suzuki, I fell in love with the silence and stillness that speaks so loudly. ” Iulia Anastasia Rosca
“I didn’t expect to find so many beautiful people, to run around bare feet in MNAC, in the big Casa, and also, to find a bit more of myself while training my body and mind. I learned how to be part of an ensemble, the importance of viewpoints and the balance Suzuki brings through discipline. It was both demanding and rewarding. ” Irina Marinescu
“For me, as an interdisciplinary artist, all the experiences I received during this workshop are extremely useful. And the most important value I’ve learned is togetherness. We opened up our minds and hearts together in this process of building a small community bringing joy in Casa Poporului and replacing the memory of the suffering of that place.” Irinel Anghel
“The Flying Sandbox workshop held by Paul Bargetto in Bucharest, in collaboration with MNAC and Doctor’s Studio, was a strong and helpful experience that made me realize how important is the relationship with other work partners and its outcome, a powerful group able to answer many artistic requirements (theater, dance, music).” Alexandru Buesc
Details of the workshop
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7 - 10 June 2018 (Thursday - Sunday) |
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| WE BEGIN | 7.06, at 6 PM (Dinner) |
| WE END | 10.06, at 2 PM (Lunch) |
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Here and Now” Personal and Spiritual Development Center in Nowe Kawkowo |
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Prowadzący
- Prowadzący:
- Paul Bargetto
Opis
Paul Bargetto
Paul Bargetto is an international theater director and festival curator. He has lived and worked between New York City and numerous European countries including Poland, Romania, Germany, and Turkey for the past fifteen years. He is currently making work with his new company Teatr Trans-Atlantyk in Warsaw. He founded the theater company East River Commedia (1998-2010) and the Undergroundzero Festival (2007 -2014). He created his workshop for actors, The Flying Sandbox, in 2004 and has presented it in numerous incarnations in New York City and Internationally. In 2005 he helped to found the League of Independent Theater, an advocacy organization for independent theater in New York City. He holds an MFA from Columbia University in Directing and B.A. in Drama from San Francisco State University. In addition to his work in the theater, Paul is a passionate amateur photographer.
Recent directing credits include Album Karla Hockera with Teatr Trans-Atlantyk at Instytut Teatralny in Warsaw, Laknienie/Hunger/Foame a conceptual staged reading and feast with the Theatre of the 8th Day and at the 2014 Temps D’ Image Festival in Cluj, The Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner Project, with Teatr Trans-Atlantyk, The Gospel of Saint Matthew after Pasolini with The Living Theatre, A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians by Dorota Maslowska at the Abrons Arts Center, AutoMotive, an original dramatic exploration of the American experience of the automobile at PS 122, Auto da Fe, by Masataka Matsuda with International WOW at Baruch Performing Arts Center, Crumble, Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake by Sheila Callaghan at the Theater Bielefeld in Germany, Necessary Monsters at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, The Magnificent Cuckold at the Connelly Theater in New York, The Jamal Lullabies at Collective Unconscious, The Taming of the Shrew and Serenada si Vulpe Filosof at the National Theater of Constanta in Romania, Serenade & Philosopher Fox at Collective: Unconscious, Philosopher Fox at the Malta International Festival in Poznan, Poland, Striptease & Out at Sea at La MaMa ETC, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Riverside Church, and Hecuba in Assos, Turkey.
Paul Bargetto (1969, San Jose, United States) creates performances, photos and conceptual artworks. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, Bargetto wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.
His collected, altered and own performances are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, he finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.
His works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. By questioning the concept of movement, he absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
His works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Paul Bargetto currently lives and works in Warszawa.